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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, December 14, 1955
Who’s Who
No Two Objects
He’s Right With You
(Continued from Page 4)
Wallace R. Larson—Southwest
ern Veterinarian (four years);
Co-editor, 1955-56; representative
to the 92nd annual National AV
MA Conference; Jones Award
1955-56; research assistant in
poultry pathology; chairman, Hon
or Council of the Student AVMA
for the Veterinary M e d i c i n e
School; Student AVMA parlia
mentarian; freshman veterinary
class, 1952-53 sergeant at arms;
sophomore Vet. Med. class, 1953-
54, parliamentarian.
Gus S. Mijalis—Student Senate,
chairman, Welcoming Committee;
Election Commission; Cadet Major,,
first wing; president Shreveport
Hometown Club; Senior Yell Lead
er, Phi Eta Sigma; winner Fresh
man Slide Rule Contest; DMS;
treasurer Texas Intercollegiate
Student Association, delegate to
TISA convention; chairman of
Kyle Field Seating Committee;
chairman of Fund Raising Com
mittee, junior class; chairman Ban
quet Committee, Junior Ball.
Walter F. Norvell—Junior AV
MA; intelligence officer for Fourth
Battalion Staff; captain, A&M
pistol team; second and fourth
places on All-American Pistol
Team; four-year letterman, pistol
team; champion showmanship in
Little Southwestern; Circulation
Committee of Southwestern Vet
erinarian; Rodeo Program Com
mittee; Press Club; 4-11 Club; Sad
dle & Sirloin Club.
Byron A. Parham—Studeht Sen
ate, corersponding secretar y 1953-
54, secretary 1954-55, president
1955-56; Student Life Committee;
Arts & Sciences Council; Corps
Staff; recording secretary Junior
Class 1954-55; commander of
freshmap drill team 1952-53;
D.M.S.; outstanding cadet, ROTC
summer camp 1955.
David C. Parnell — Treasurer,
Student Senate; parliamentarian,
Student Life Committee; cadet
major; Chairman, Concessions
Committee, Second Regiment; Ross
Volunteers; Tau Beta Pi; Phi Eta
Sigma; Phi Lambda Upsilon; AI
ChE; slide rule contest winner;
AlChE Award Winner; Aggie
Players; Carbide & Carbon Chem
ical Company Scholarship.
Robert II. Scott—Fish, Wing
and Coi'ps Color Guards; Corps
Chaplain; Methodist Wesley Foun
dation; Wesley Players, vice-pres
ident 1953-54; Deputation chair
man 1954-55, vice-president 1955-
56; Singing Cadets librarian 1953-
54, business manager 1954-55,
president 1955-56; Town Hall
staff, D.M.S.
Gerald L. Van Hoosier Jr.—
Student Life Committee; Civilian
Council, vice-president; AVMA
Council, 1954-56; vice-president,
AVMA 1955; president, Weather
ford and Mineral Wells Hometown
Club, 1953-54, 1954-55; Phi Eta
Sigma; staff of Southwestern Vet
erinarian, 1954-56; intramural
manager, 1952-53; athletic officer,
I 951-52.
Franklin D. Waddell — Student
Senate; Student Agricultural 1
Council; censor, Alpha Zeta; Sad
dle & Sirloin Club; cadet major;
president, sophomore class; vice-
president and seci'etary, Central
West Texas A&M Club; Ross Vol
unteers; Opportunity Award
Scholarship; Sears Sophomore
Award and Scholarship; Clayton
Foundation Scholarship; Phi Eta
Sigma; Editor, The Agriculturist;
Aggieland ’55; D.M.S.
Weldon W. Walker—Cadet ma
jor; chairman of Arrangements
Committee for Student Confer
ence on National Affairs; past
president and junior advisor. Phi
Eta Sigma; winner of 1953-54
Physics Award; Ross Volunteers;
AIChE; Engineers Council; win
ner of National Armed Forces
Chemical Association Award; out
standing junior of Second Wing;
Tau Beta Pi; Opportunity Awards
Scholarship; D.M.S.; Chemical
Honor Society; Cadet Court.
(Three more Who’s and Why
will be in tomorrow’s paper.)
Take Lou’s Tip - Slow Up
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Can Occupy the . . .
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Would you risk your life for
31 extra minutes with your
girlfriend ?
It could depend on the situ
ation, but J. E. Loupot, known
to Aggies as Ol’ Aimy Lou, and
two of his “henchmen” will tell you
‘it just ain’t worth it.” Not if
you’ve gained those 31 minutes by
driving at a dangerous speed.
“Couple of my henchmen and me
had an argument about how much
difference in time there would be
between a car going full speed on
a long trip and one going 60 miles
an hour,” said the colorful North
Gate businessman.
“Well, Bubba, one of my good
Aggies took my ’52 Olds and the
other a new Ford. They started
out from the MSC and ended up
at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas.
“The Olds was supposed to bar
rel it all the way, as long as he
felt he wasn’t taking any chances,
see ? He went wide open when he
could, clippin’ along at about 100
sometimes.
“This other boy in the Ford
drove at 60 miles an hour all the
way. That was the deal, ya know ?
The boy in the Ford stopped for
’bout six minutes to get coffee.
Just taking his time, see?
“My friend! Well, the Olds blew
into Dallas about 31 minutes ahead
of the Ford but he was shook up
after driving so hard and fast.
The boy in the Ford rolled in, called
his girl, and was ready to go, see?
“Thing about it was, and both
of those good Aggies agree, they
didn’t gain anything by driving
fast. I mean that 31 minutes was
n’t important enough to get killed
over, see? What’s the use in
knowing you’re going to get there
Lennie Rosenbluth, North Car
olina’s basketball ace, was born
in New York City but now calls
Greenville, Tenn., his home.
faster if you don’t know you’re go
ing to get there?
“At 60 miles an hour you good
Aggies can kinda’ miss those cows
along the road. But at 80 or 90,
oo-ah! you’ve had it if you hit
anything.”
Look at your watch. Fourteen
minutes from now someone in the
United States will die in a traffic
accident. Twenty-three seconds
from now someone will be injured.
This happens hour after hour and
day after day.
More than 70 per cent of the
total traffic accidents are due, in
one way or another, to excessive
speed. If your are driving at 60
miles per hour, your car needs 172*
feet to stop from the moment the
brakes are first applied.
Each decision you make while_
driving a car is important. In fact,
you bet your life on the right de
cision. ’Fake a tip from Lou, he’s
right with you. “Drive slower, live
longer.”
College Agers May Commit Teenicide
By RALPH COLE
Once every two minutes, some
“teenicide”, or college-aged stu
dent—your age and mine — kills
or injures some person in an auto
mobile accident.
An estimated 9,720 dead and
337,500 injured in 1954 was calcu
lated for the under 25 age group.
These figures represent 16 times
more persons injured than the Uni
ted States suffered at Two Jima
during World War II.
Insurance agencies believe any
one up to the age of 25 is a poten
tial “teenicide.” Many college stu
dents, filled with “stunting” and
Engineers Attend
Chicago Meeting
Four members of the Agricul-
tural Engineering Department are
attending a national conference in
Chicago this week.
They are Price Hobgood, Robert
C. Jaska, J. W. Sorenson and P.
T. Montfort. Two of them,. Hob-
good and Jaska, are presenting
papers before the winter meeting
of the American Society of Agri
cultural Engineers.
Sorenson is attending a special
session of the meeting sponsored
by the Gi'eat Lakes Steel Corpo
ration on “Grain Storage and Dry
ing Problems.”
Dorms Close Saturday
College dormitories will be closed
and locked from 2 p.m. Satui’day
Dec. 17 until noon Monday, Jan. 2.
Students are urged to close their
windows and lock the doors to their
rooms. First floor windows par
ticularly should be locked.
Any student who will have diffi
culty clearing his doirnitory by 2
p.m. Saturday because of trans
portation or other problems, should
contact his tactical officer or dor-
mitory counselor for arrangements.
Students, other than those living
in Bizzell, who wish to remain on
the campus during the Christmas
holidays or a portion of them,
should contact students in Bizzell
UVC
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Alec say* 1 can drive through red Iqhfs..
but YOU have
only ONE life"
Why try to be an accident statistic? Traffic
laws are made to keep your one life out of
traffic trouble. Watch those red lights. You
know you should, but just remember . . .
An official public service message
prepared by The Advertising
Council in cooperation v/ith the
National Safety Council.
DRIVE CAREFULLY.. • the life you save
may be your own!
Sponsored in the interest of traffic safety by
Goodyear Service Store
200 East 26th St.
Bryan
Phone 3791
who will not remain here, about
using their rooms. To get rooms,
students should bring a note of
permission from the occupant of
Bizzell to the Housing Office in
Goodwin Hall, where each student
will sign a roster showing his loca
tion for the holidays, so that in
case of an emergency he may be
located. This should be done be
fore noon, Saturday.
The college dining halls will be
closed after the evening meal Sat
urday until supper Jan. 2.
The Fountain Room of the Me
morial Student Center will close
after the evening meal Dec. 22, and
will be closed until 3 p.m. Jan. 2.
During the period it is closed, the
MSC will furnish students with
free transportation to restaurants
in Bryan. This transportation will
leave from in front of the MSC
(drill field side) at 8 a.m., 12 noon
and 6 p.m. Students desiring this
transportation should sign up at
the main desk of the MSC by noon
Saturday, Dec. 17.
fast driving, are turning the high
ways into a mass field of murder.
According to Funk qnd Wagnalls
dictionary, “Teenicide is death
caused by automobile drivers under
20 years of age, usually the result
of recklessness or immature judg
ment.” It is recognized that driv
ing habits of teen agers carry over
into the age of 25.
Last year, 43,000 drivers of all
ages were involved in fatal acci
dents. More than 12,470, or 30
per cent of these drivers were un
der 25. And, 4,573,000, or 27 per
cent, of the 15,700,000 drivers in
volved in all accidents last year
were in this age group despite the
fact that it contains .less than 30
per cent of all drivers.
Following traffic regulations
would save thousands of lives and
lower the number of accidents each
year. Police records over the na
tion show 57 per cent of drivers in
volved in fatal accidents are viola
ting traffic regulations.
Property damage in 1954 totaled
more than $4,400,000,000, with a
motor-vehicle mileage of 560,000,-
000,000 miles. Two-thirds of all
these accidents occuring in the Uni
ted States during 1954, were in
rural areas.
Many teen agers are growing to
maturity with improperly formed
motor habits, because of the inad
equate driving instruction in public
schools. Driver education courses
would be one answer to the., prob
lem of “teenicide” drivers.
Insurance agencies found it nec
essary in 1948, to revise the method
of classifying and rating private
passenger cars for higher rates on
operators under 25 years of age,‘
Usually, a son or daughter will
copy his or her parents driving
habits. The trouble with this is
that all parents are not good driv
ers.
Automobile manufacturers,
through the AAA, are donating
dual controlled cars as their part
to end “teenicide” accidents. By
starting driver education in high
school, we can begin a new era of
trained, responsible drivers.
Will you be a “teenicide” during
the Christmas holidays?
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.t s KID STUFF
Scaring Folks in the Dark!
Leaping suddenly out of the night might
be a youngster’s idea of fun.
But when “kid stuff” drivers shoot out
of the dark without a light—that’s no
laughing matter.
All careful drivers remember to switch
on headlights earlier in winter’s early dusk.
Forgetting causes an appalling loss of life
each year ... a loss that can easily be
avoided.
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CARELESS DRIVING
IS KID STUFF
An official public service message
prepared by
The Advertising Council in cooperation
with the National Safety Council.
Contributed as a public service by
The Battalion